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Celebrate National Engineers Week with Ozobot

Celebrating National Engineers Week: Recognizing the Impact and Contributions of Engineers

National Engineers Week (February 18-24) is a time to celebrate the contributions of engineers and their role in shaping our world. Engineering and computer science are the foundation of many of the technologies and systems we rely on daily, and they play a crucial role in solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.  This week …

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Ozobot Industrial Designer: Time Hemesath

Behind the Bot: Ozobot Industrial Designer, Tim Hemesath

Industrial designers do a lot of the behind the scenes work when it comes to creating a new product. For example, they design the whole product before it goes into production and create the renderings internal teams use for sales and marketing initiatives.  Meet Tim Hemesath. He’s an Industrial Designer at Ozobot and an asset …

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Ozobot Graphic Designer, Katherine Gezalian

Behind the Bot: Graphic Designer, Katherine Gezalian

Graphic Designer may not be the first job that comes to mind when someone says “Ozobot,” but graphic design plays a considerable role within the company. The Graphic Design team creates visuals for all projects, from print inserts and packaging to website design and GIFs; they do it all!  Katherine Gezalian is a Junior Graphic …

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Behind the Bot: Ozobot Senior Software Engineer, Ondřej Sienczak

Behind the Bot: Senior Software Engineer, Ondřej Sienczak

This month, in our Behind the Bot series, we’re chatting with Ozobot’s Prague-based Senior Software Engineer, Ondřej Sienczak. As Senior Software Engineer, Ondřej designs and integrates various software platforms and programming languages with robot hardware. Among other projects, Ondřej has been a key contributor to the advanced functionality of our Ozobot Evo through developing software …

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Ozobot Engineer Spotlight: Michaela Maršálková

Michaela Maršálková is a Javascript developer who focuses on maintaining and developing the Ozobot Blockly web editor. Among other projects, Michaela has been a key contributor to Ozobot Classroom. She holds a MSc. in Mathematical Statistics from Charles University in Prague, and formerly worked as an analyst in a government statistical office before she left …

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Ozobot Engineer Spotlight: Ladislav Láska

As Senior Embedded Systems Engineer, Ladislav Láska leads the electrical engineering team in Prague in researching and developing new products and oversees the integration of hardware with firmware and other software components. With Ozobot since 2016, Ladislav introduced numerous improvements to internal processes, such as the continuous integration framework for automated firmware testing and tooling …

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Ozobot Engineer Spotlight: Ondřej Staněk

Creating robots isn’t easy. A lot of hard work and perseverance goes on behind the scenes at Ozobot to make sure students and educators are getting the most out of their computer science experience.  We wanted to spotlight the dedicated individuals behind our bots, starting with Ondřej Staněk. Ondřej started developing the firmware and electronics …

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